{"id":213638,"date":"2026-04-29T03:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213638\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T03:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:54:17","slug":"yankees-prospect-george-lombard-promoted-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213638\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees prospect George Lombard promoted to Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON, Texas \u2013 George Lombard Jr. is suddenly on the doorstep of the big leagues.<\/p>\n

The Yankees have promoted their top prospect to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre, a source confirmed on Tuesday night, after he crushed the first month of the season<\/a> at Double-A Somerset.<\/p>\n

Lombard, who turns 21 on June 2, was batting .312 with a .971 OPS in 20 games at Somerset after going through some growing pains in 108 games there last year.<\/p>\n

\"SomersetSomerset Patriots shortstop George Lombard Jr. scores during a game against the Reading Fightin\u2019 Phils. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

The Yankees believe that the shortstop \u2014 who has also played some occasional third base \u2014 is already ready defensively for the big leagues, but they wanted to see his bat catch up to his glove.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lombard has impressed in each of the last two springs, as a non-roster invite to big league camp, both with his talent and his character. <\/p>\n

The son of a former big leaguer (and current Tigers bench coach), Lombard has often been lauded for his \u201coff-the-charts\u201d makeup and baseball IQ.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGo beyond the box score with the Bombers\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Yankees by Greg Joyce, exclusively on Sports+.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

It may not be long before the organization\u2019s first-round pick in 2023 makes it to The Bronx \u2014 the only question, now that he is just one level away from the major leagues, is how soon it happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas \u2013 George Lombard Jr. is suddenly on the doorstep of the big leagues. The Yankees have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21522,20,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-213638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-minor-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}